Realex Payments have released another graphic. This time round it’s a visualisation of Q4 2012, which of course includes the Christmas ecommerce activity. It’s pretty interesting to see what the busiest times of the day are as well as the breakdown of the types of cards used along with a wealth of other information:
Archive | January, 2013
500px Offering Discounts Based on Klout Scores
Online photo sharing site 500px has launched a special offer in conjunction with Klout. Using your Klout “score” you can either signup or upgrade your 500px account and get a discount. The offer was launched several months ago, but I only came across it today! (thanks to Paul) Bottom line – the higher your Klout […]
Mega Launch Event – Video
Yesterday Kim Dotcom launched Mega. The new service was launched exactly one year after MegaUpload was shutdown by the US government The new service is being run out of New Zealand and will be competing against the likes of Dropbox and Google Drive. In the first 24 hours the new service reported hundreds of thousands […]
Graphic: The Perfect Subject Line
The guys over at Litmus have put together a rather tasty graphic explaining how to craft a good subject line for your marketing emails
High Street Retailers Feeling the Pinch
It’s been a pretty bad week for high street retailers. Earlier this evening it was announced that HMV Ireland has been put into receivership only a couple of days after the company was put into administration. Also today Blockbuster in the UK announced that they have gone into administration. The company has over 500 stores […]
Geektastic Valentine’s Day Badges
The guys over at Spike Badges are offering a range of rather geeky Valentine’s Day buttons. I’ll be ordering a few later today 🙂 Full details here
Irish Horse Meat Memes
Horse meat or, more specifically, horse DNA, made its way into some meat products being sold in Irish supermarkets. You can read about the story over on The Guardian (we’re avoiding Irish newspapers at the moment!) So of course the Irish internet community had to find the funny side. Here are a couple of the […]
Value of “Long Tail” SEO
If you do any work in marketing and SEO you’ve probably heard about “long tail” The guys at HitTail have published a pretty nice infographic explaining it for the rest of us: Via
Instagram Reminds Users of Terms of Service Change
Remember the Instagram debacle? While the company may have listened to users’ outrage (and there was a lot of that.. ) they’ve still made changes to their terms of service, although the changes are much less drastic than the originally planned ones. In an email sent to users of the service today the company underlines […]
Social Media For Business – 5 Types of Follower You Need
Vocus have produced a graphic showing what they class as the “5 types of social followers your business needs” The 5 classes of follower are: The early adopter The social sharer The born follower The popular powerhouse The basement dwelling hater Not only do they provide 5 simple classifications but they also provide a rationale […]